Oestrike’s ex-roommate: “He was having thoughts about killing me.”

WYOMING, Mich. – In an exclusive interview with FOX 17, Brady Oestrike’s former roommate describes the mental issues and dark thoughts of the accused murderer in the Wyoming Craigslist killings.

Rachel Morris says she wasn’t surprised by the triple murder.

“Knowing what tormented him, knowing the bad dreams and bad things he saw in his dreams and the depth of pain in his poetry, I wasn`t surprised that something traumatic and violent like this happened in his life,” she said.

Oestrike, 31, is accused of killing Brooke Slocum, 18, who was eight months pregnant, and Charlie Oppenneer, 25, before taking his own life.

Morris says she saw a side of Oestrike few others did when the two lived in his house on Taft Avenue back in 2012.

“He described a lot of bad dreams,” Morris says. “He described a lot of thoughts that were dark and disturbed him.” She says Oestrike was very intelligent and worked a lot.

Though the house was filled with guns and swords, Morris says she wasn’t frightened of him until he made a horrific confession one day.

“He told me that he was having thoughts about killing me and that he was warning me,” she said.

“He’s like, ‘These thoughts are happening to me.'”

Morris says she prepared to move out and encouraged Oestrike to see a mental health professional. “He had said he studied it and believed that he was schizophrenic,” she said. Oestrike was terrified of people finding out and tried to hide his issues from his friends and family. “He was just so scared that he would lose his job and his position and his standing with his workmates.”

Charles Oppenneer, murder victim

That’s why Morris is speaking out now – hoping that Slocum, Oppenneer, and their unborn daughter did not die in vain. She urges people in similar situations to get help. “I do believe that he could have gotten help. He could have maybe stood up to those fears,” Morris says.

“But fears are hard to deal with. And I think in the end, the fears and the thoughts that he was having won – and Brady didn`t.”

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Val

You can’t turn someone in for saying words to you. What are you going to do call the police and said “he had a dream!” What are they going to do? Come arrest him for having a bad dream? I had a dream the other night that the sky turned purple and it rained skittles, shall I call the news and have them break this story now?
He didn’t threaten her. You cannot force someone into treatment either. This man was sick as in, he had a disease beyond his control. The mental health system in this country is so beyond disgusting. People like this are looked down upon and called horrible things. Yet people feel there’s no need for change in the health care system of this country. This poor man was struggling with things you can NEVER even imagine, feeling like there wasn’t anywhere he could turn for help, for fear of losing his job, his friends, his life. Yet people feel there’s no need for change in the health care system of this country.

tory

The police would not have beleived her either, they would have laughed at her and totally blown her off. That’s how they treat people who are not at the top of society. The cannibal killer just got off for “thinking” aboutt killing and cannabalizing his wife and others and having it all over his computer, they’re not gonna do shit.